Recycled air pumped into the darkened corridor with a low hiss, stale and rank with age. It had been a long time since this part of the dome had seen any life and it felt like years would pass before it did again.

Then something happened

Then a light appeared at one of the windows, another hiss drowing out the first, then sparks jumped, scattering across the floor as door was attacked from the outside.

the echo of the piece of door hitting the hard floor bounced and amplified around the dome.
Three men entered through the smoking hole dipping thier heads to avoid catching their hair in the charred edges...
once inside they looked around the leader removed his mask and turned to motion the others to bring him in....
he was dragged in half unconcious and dumped on a dusty bench while the others made thier preparations....

the white haired man didnt even hesitate.
he stabbed the needle into the mans arm roughly with no thought to the pain he might be inflicting.
the dark haired man winced. a defiant expression on his face as he tried to contain his discomfort.
"you are worth a lot to us" the white haired man calmly stated
"you will be our eyes and ears".
the prisoner didnt have time to wonder what he meant as the sedative took effect and he slid quickly into oblivion.....

Bile rose to the back of his throat as he final came round, disgusted to find himself in a cell with half a dozen other prisoners. Across from him sat a large brute of a man, head held firmly in his hands._________________

he tried to stand up. why did he feel so strange....
his mouth was dry and his stomach growled.
how much time had passed...he struggled to remember flashes of pain and discomfort...
Anna...what had happened to Anna....
Anna?he tried to remember her face her voice...a wave of confusion came over him.
the man oposite him sat up and for a moment he saw his own conflicted thoughts echoed in the other mans eyes

the annoyance he felt jolted kerr avon back into some sense of normality.
he was suddenly aware of all the other people around him...carefully he made a mental note of them all making sure his glances couldnt be taken the wrong way...
"well now i wouldnt want to start a fight would i" he thought with a dark chuckle to himself.
his attention was drawn back to the larger dark haired man sitting opposite him. there was something familiar about him.
but as he tried to recall where he had seen him before, the man who had introduced himself as vila restal was now beginning to babble to the larger man....

Avon held his gaze.
"do i know you?"asked Gan in a slightly sharper voice still holding his head with one hand.
Avon thought for a second..."i dont think i have had the pleasure"
he tried to keep his voice quiet and untroubled but even as he said the words he doubted their truth....

the cell instantly quieted...everyone looking at vila.Gan allowed alook of sympathy cross his face as vila turned to him for support.
"wouldnt want to keep them waiting vila" he said kindly
vila just nodded..he had turned an odd shade of green.
Avon just kept staring at the floor!

The screen turned black as the white haired man turned away, looking to his fellow conspirator. "Okay, so now you have them on the London. The ship is headed for Cygnus Alpha, would good would this kind of intrigue do us on a prison planet."

The cloaked figure smiled. "Oh I'm sure that we can do better than that, after all," she smiled, "Blake is a very resourceful man." She looked over her shoulder. "Wouldn't you say, Artix?"

Avon wasnt one for getting agitated but these turn of events were starting to get to him.
he silently followed the guard out of the cell cautiously waiting to see if they were being led somewhere where they might not return from.
this caused him to momenarily pause he recieved a sharp poke inthe back from the guard.
he half thought of running but how far would he get...where would he go even if he managed to get away. he sighed and carried on.
from a sideroom the white haired man watched them go by. his face set in a stern gaze.
the woman stepped up behind him smiling and lay a hand on his shoulder...
"wait and see general...wait and see, i know you will not be disapointed with the outcome"
she gave a small dark laugh and nodded once to the others and stepped out into the corridor.
the white haired man knew that he wouldnt see her again until all this was over. he shuddered as he pondered what that might mean...